MaryClark

Professor of Law Interim Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice Provost of American University

Mary Clark is Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law and Interim Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice Provost of American University. Dean Clark teaches in the area of Higher Education Law, Women’s Legal History, Legal Ethics, Judicial Politics, and Property and publishes in the fields of Women’s Legal History and Judicial Politics. Professor Clark has served as Associate Dean for Faculty & Academic Affairs, Director of the law school’s SJD Program, and Acting Director of its Law and Government Program.

Before joining the WCL faculty, Clark was a visiting lecturer and research scholar at Yale Law School, a Supreme Court fellow with the Federal Judicial Center, a teaching fellow and adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and an appellate attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College (magna cum laude) and Harvard Law School, she clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Montgomery, Alabama, following graduation from law school.

Mary Clark, Keep Your Hands Off My (Dead) Body: A Critique of the Ways in Which the State Disrupts the Personhood Interests of the Deceased and His or Her Kin in Disposing of the Dead and Assigning Identity in Death, 58 Rutgers L. Rev. 45 (Fall 2005).

Mary Clark, One Man's Token Is Another Woman's Breakthrough? The Appointment of the First Woman Federal Judges, 49 Vill. L. Rev. 487 (2004).

More Publications...

Mary Clark, Treading on Hallowed Ground: Implications for Property Law and Critical Theory of Recognizing the ‘Consecrated’ Nature of Land Associated with Human Death and Burial, 94 Ky. L.J. 487 (2005-2006).

Mary Clark, Reconstructing the World Trade Center: An Argument for the Applicability of Personhood Theory to Commercial Property Ownership and Use, 109 Penn St. L. Rev 815 (2005).

Mary Clark, Presentation, Commentary on Professor Renee Lerner Lettow, “American Judges, English Judges, and the Power to Comment on Evidence" (D.C.-area Legal History Roundtable at George Washington University Law School, Wash., D.C., Sept. 2006).

Mary Clark, Presentation, The Legal Semiotics of Death and Burial (McGill University Faculty of Law, Montreal, Quebec, Can., 2005).